{"id":1080,"date":"2008-11-12T10:43:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T14:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2008-11-12T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T15:24:05","slug":"each-one-of-us-can-have-our-own-set-of-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2008\/11\/12\/each-one-of-us-can-have-our-own-set-of-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Each One of us Can Have Our Own Set of Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my previous post Obama\u2019s Challenge: A Transformative Opportunity<\/strong><\/a>, I extolled the interview with Robert Kuttner. I said:<\/p>\n

Robert Kuttner provides the facts and figures that dispel the notion that we don\u2019t have the resources to solve these problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I stumbled across a post on another blog called The Only Winning Move<\/strong><\/a> written by Joshua Herring. I was stunned at how someone could hear the same interview that I did, and yet come up with such a different reaction. I post the link to the blog just so you too can see how one’s prior convictions can blind you to information (I am sure that is true of me too). I hope that Joshua does a better job of looking for the truth in his PhD studies than he does in the political\/economic realm.<\/p>\n

Joshua is so sure of his own set of facts, that he couldn’t believe anything that Kuttner said.\u00a0 If Joshua had to mis-hear what Kuttner said to reconcile with his own inner demons, then that is apparently what Joshua did.<\/p>\n

When Joshua says such things about Kuttner as<\/p>\n

He happens to know off the top of his head that the debt is $5.6trillion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

then you know he is clutching at straws.\u00a0 Kuttner is being interviewed about a book that he has just written.\u00a0 Joshua is sure that numbers that Kuttner is using just came into his mind and were not the product of research for the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my previous post Obama\u2019s Challenge: A Transformative Opportunity, I extolled the interview with Robert Kuttner. I said: Robert Kuttner provides the facts and figures that dispel the notion that we don\u2019t have the resources to solve these problems. Well, I stumbled across a post on another blog called The Only Winning Move written by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}